In racing, the checkered flag is the ultimate goal—making it there, and making it there before everyone else. Passing under that flag first is synonymous with sweet, sweet victory, but it wasn't ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The checkered flag is an icon of racing. It decorates homes across Indiana in the month of May. But the two checkered flags that really matter will be in the hands of Aaron Likens on ...

The 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 at Daytona didn't quite make it to 24 hours, after all. An officiating error caused the 24-hour endurance ...

Busch’s stuff was good enough to win 232 times — a NASCAR record — across the three national series. Busch moved to Richard ...

You’ve got the answer at hand to any automotive history question, right? You can point to Ray Harroun’s 1911 Indy 500 victory as the moment when the rearview mirror gained credence. You know Charles ...

Aaron Likens waved his first checkered racing flag when he was 3 years old. He’s never stopped — even 35 years later. Likens, a St. Louis resident, is now at the top of his profession, serving as the ...

When, where and how did the checkered flag come to be used at the end of racing events to indicate the winner and the end of the race? Some housekeeping first: People. People. People, people. Ever ...

Advance Also Becomes Official Automotive Aftermarket Retail Partner of INDYCAR, IMS Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider, today announced a multiyear ...

DAYTONA BEACH — It didn’t take long for state work crews to follow-up on the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) intent to repaint the checkered flag crosswalks outside Daytona International ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gone are the checkered flags that once adorned the crosswalks outside Daytona International Speedway, but social media reactions ...

Brad Keselowski and the Checkered Flag Foundation buttoned up a decade of doing goodwill unto others with an event last Saturday that fittingly was about transitions. In collaboration with Suiting ...